'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
More About 'Monk'
from Michelle
There is a 'Monk' Marathon on USA this Sunday.
The next new episode of MONK, "Mr. Monk Meets the Red-Headed Stranger" (featuring special guest star Willie Nelson), premieres this Friday,
October 11 at 10PM/9C on USA Network. You can watch a video preview now on the MONK homepage at http://www.usanetwork.com/monk
Elsewhere on the official MONK Web site you can register for the (free) MONK newsletter.
~~Michelle V
Thanks, Michelle!
He's Been Busy, Again!
the worried shrimp
Economy....
The Worried Shrimp
Have crayon, will scribble
Ideas and Critiques are welcomed
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The roofers got here nice & early. They also took down the dish, so it was a night of dvd's & Play-doh for the kid.
The cats are almost getting used to the noise. Almost...
Cool enough to start closing windows tonight!
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts with '48 Hours', then a fresh 'Hack' (Hey, it's done in Philadelphia - it's gotta at least look different from most everything else on TV tonight), and wraps with a fresh 'Robbery Homicide Division'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Johnny Knoxville and comic Ron White.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is Jennifer Love Hewitt.
NBC has a fresh 'Providence', then 'Dateline', and a fresh 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Mira Sorvino, Michael Chiklis, and Avril Lavigne.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Jennifer Esposito, and Trust Company.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Donnie Wahlberg, Avril Lavigne, Amy Poehler, and Tom Papa.
ABC opens with a fresh 'America's Funniest Videos', and probably won't show the seemingly-scheduled 'That Was Then', replacing it with another episode of 'America's Funniest Videos'. The night is rounded out with '20/20'.
The WB has a fresh 'What I Like About You', a fresh 'Sabrina', a fresh 'Reba', and a fresh 'Greetings From Tucson'.
Faux still has baseball & local filler.
UPN has the movie 'Supercop 2'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Boston
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks to supporters of Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Governor Shannon O'Brien, in Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 2002.
Clinton was in town campaigning for the Democratic candidate.
Photo by Brian Snyder
NewsDirectory: Newspapers and Media
Dropped As Speaker
Leonard Nimoy
The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has dropped Leonard Nimoy from its Oct. 23 fund-raiser because of images in the former "Star Trek" star's art photography book of naked and partially
dressed women, some with Jewish ritual items.
Federation director Barry Goren withdrew the invitation Wednesday in an "unpleasant" conversation, Nimoy told The Seattle Times for an article published Thursday.
The umbrella Jewish community group, which has about 4,500 regular donors, could not afford to jeopardize the annual fund-raiser, which produced about $10 million last year, Goren said.
After receiving "some expressions of concern" — he would not say how many — "I brought it to my leadership," Goren said.
Comedian Al Franken, author of "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations," has been booked as a replacement, Goren said.
Nimoy said he was shocked.
For more details, Leonard Nimoy
Nimoy's photography
Images from the book
Jewish Federation
Pickups & Cancellations
ABC
ABC believes "Less Than Perfect" is more than fine, ordering a full season of the rookie Tuesday night office comedy starring Sara Rue.
"Perfect's" pickup comes in the wake of another terrific Tuesday ratings performance for the network, which bested NBC on the night among adults 18-49 for the second consecutive week. The move also follows ABC's full-season
orders for "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" and "Life With Bonnie."
"Perfect" wasn't the only show to receive a pickup Wednesday. UPN ordered a full season of Monday night comedy "Half and Half."
Meanwhile, with ABC's Tuesday and Wednesday nights clicking, ABC execs are closing in on a plan to shore up some weak spots on Thursday and Friday nights.
"That Was Then," which aired just two original episodes, will be replaced this week by another installment of "America's Funniest Home Videos." A combo of "Videos" and specials will fill the 9-10 p.m. Friday
slot until early November, when "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Drew Carey Show" slide into the slot.
Replacing "Drew Carey" and "Whose Line" Mondays at 8, starting in early November will be "Monk," the critically acclaimed USA Network drama that's also been running on ABC since August, most recently on Thursdays.
The mystery drama/reality series "Push, Nevada" will have its seventh and final broadcast on Oct. 24. Producers will ensure enough clues will have aired to allow viewers to compete for the $1 million prize being
offered in connection with the skein.
With "Monk" and "Push" off the night, ABC's Thursday plans are still sketchy, but the network will likely vamp with specials and reality programming until "Dinotopia" premieres on Thanksgiving, Nov. 28,
with two back-to-back episodes. An ABC spokesman refused to confirm any changes.
ABC
Silent Movie Organist Plays On at 90
Bob Mitchell
A management oversight at a movie house in 1924 launched Bob Mitchell's career playing organ to accompany silent films. Seventy-eight years later, Mitchell's still at it.
One of the last accompanists from that era still playing organ regularly for silent films, Mitchell turns 90 on Saturday with a birthday bash at the Downtown Palace Theatre in Los Angeles at which he will provide music for Buster Keaton's "Seven Chances."
Mitchell plays one or two nights each weekend for films at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles, the nation's only movie house devoted to pre-talkies.
A Southern California resident most of his life, Mitchell had lined up a gig playing organ between movie screenings at the Strand theater in Pasadena on Christmas Day 1924, when he was 12.
Mitchell plays organ once a month at a church and performs at weddings, film festivals and other events. In September, he played during the seventh-inning stretch at Dodger Stadium, where he was a regular organist in the early 1960s.
He's doing a wedding Saturday afternoon before his birthday celebration.
For a lot more about this incredible gentleman, Bob Mitchell
Silent Movie Theatre site
Is This A Good Idea?
'Akira'
Warner Bros. Pictures will produce a live-action, English-language remake of Japan's anime classic "Akira."
Director Stephen Norrington, who has just wrapped superhero drama "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," has reteamed with "League" screenwriter James Robinson to develop the project.
Released in 1988, "Akira" was the brainchild of Katsuhiro Otomo, who directed the film and wrote the comic from which it stemmed. The remake will tell the story of a bike gang leader who must rescue his younger brother from
his involvement in Akira, a secret government project. In the process, the biker must do battle with anti-government activists, greedy politicians and irresponsible scientists.
"I've been a fan of the anime for many years and understood which elements would have to be brought to a live-action translation of it," Robinson told Daily Variety. "I've tried to retain as many iconic elements of the anime as possible."
'Akira'
Library To Create Collection
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan rarely visits his hometown.
Still, the town's library has been putting together a collection of artifacts about the singer-songwriter, known as Robert Zimmerman in his Hibbing days.
Dylan, whose songs include "Like a Rolling Stone," "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," left town in 1959 to become what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame calls "the pre-eminent
poet-lyricist and songwriter of his time."
The collection is mostly out of public view, although portions are placed in rotating displays. However, virtually everything Dylan that the library owns is available to the public.
It includes about 2,000 magazine and newspaper articles, 22 collector posters, 50 albums, 40 compact discs and 45 rpm records in their original sleeves; publicity photographs, sheet music
and scripts; and a 1959 Hibbing High School yearbook that's kept in a vault.
The plan is to have a Dylan museum in the library's auditorium by May 24, 2006 — his 65th birthday. By then, Maki said, the library hopes to have been successful in securing some personal items.
Bob Dylan
Hibbing Public Library Web site
Bob Dylan Web site
Going Back On Tour
'The Other Ones'
The remaining members of the Grateful Dead are going back on tour, with the first stop scheduled for the Roanoke Civic Center on Nov. 14.
The band, renamed The Other Ones after leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995, announced the 14-city tour on its Web site.
Surviving band members include Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. They'll play in cities including Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago.
'The Other Ones'
Official Grateful Dead Web site
'LennonOno Grant for Peace'
Yoko Ono
To commemorate the late John Lennon's 62nd birthday, Yoko Ono on Wednesday inaugurated a new peace award for those who "imagine" while bullets fly by, giving $50,000 prizes to Israeli and Palestinian artists.
In presenting the "LennonOno Grant for Peace" to Israeli Zvi Goldstein and Palestinian Khalil Rabah, Ono thanked the artists for "being so creative and inspirational despite the intense political situation we all live in."
She said future grants would be given only to artists living "in regions of conflict."
Some 300 diplomats and artists attended the event at United Nations headquarters, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his artist wife, Nane.
Yoko Ono
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Sanctioned By George Lucas
'Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes'
A hit from the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes" will make its U.S. premiere at the Coronet Theater in West Hollywood on Oct. 25.
Adapted and directed by Patrick T. Gorman, the half-hour play reduces the three original "Star Wars" films into a coherent comedy with all the famous lines intact. The actors play
multiple roles -- Darth Vader as the hairy Wookie Chewbacca, Yoda is C3PO is R2D2, and the ensemble plays everything from the Ewoks and the Cantina Band to a trash compactor.
The play, which is sanctioned by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, runs through Nov. 23.
'Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes'
Indonesia
Jakarta
An Indonesian Muslim student shouts anti-U.S. slogans while holding a poster with President George W. Bush's face imposed on to what had been a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest outside the U.S. embassy
in Jakarta on October 10, 2002. The small group of students were protesting over a possible U.S. attack on Iraq, and said the picture showed that Bush, not bin Laden, should be a wanted man.
Photo by Enny Nuraheni
ABC to Air Two-Hour Tour Movie
Paul McCartney
In 1968 he was "Back in the U.S.S.R." and now, in 2002, former Beatle Paul McCartney is "Back in the U.S."
Television network ABC said on Wednesday it will air "Back in the U.S.," a two-hour special chronicling the singer's American tour of earlier this year, on Nov. 27 at 9 p.m. EDT.
The network said a crew followed the McCartney to 34 cities over the span of 14 weeks, shooting performances of hits like "Yesterday," "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Live and Let Die."
The film will feature more than two dozen songs, as well as candid footage shot on McCartney's chartered jet and in the band's dressing rooms.
Paul McCartney
Defends HBO's 'Sopranos'
Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani weighed in Thursday on whether cast members of HBO's "The Sopranos" should march in the Columbus Day Parade — and the ex-prosecutor's on the side of the television mob.
His comments came a day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg drew criticism from parade organizers for inviting Dominic Chianese, who plays Tony Soprano's Uncle Junior on the show, and Lorraine Bracco, who plays psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi, to march in the city's annual celebration of Italian pride.
Parade organizers dislike "The Sopranos" because they say it's little more than a negative caricature of Italian-American life. The Columbus Citizens Foundation, which plans the event, previously has turned down requests for "Sopranos" actors to participate.
"I didn't invite them as members of `The Sopranos.' I didn't invite any other member of `The Sopranos' cast," Bloomberg said Wednesday. "These are two nice people who have gone out of their way to help the city."
Larry Auriana, president of the foundation, said the show perpetuates negative stereotypes.
Giuliani disagreed.
"I don't think we should feel sorry for ourselves," he said. "Italian-Americans have this thing they have to deal with, where people maybe have some prejudices because of the Mafia, which they shouldn't have."
But Giuliani said he can't march in the parade because he'll be in California, signing copies of his new book, "Leadership," and campaigning for Bill Simon, the Republican candidate for governor.
Rudy Giuliani
BartCop TV!
'Most Powerful'
Tom Hanks
Ozzy Osbourne, dapper in a pinstriped suit, stares from the cover of Entertainment Weekly's annual list of the 100 most powerful people in entertainment, which he and his wife, Sharon, made for the first time.
But others wield more clout.
For the first time in 13 years, the magazine split its annual list in two, with separate lists for stars and power brokers. Actor Tom Hanks topped one; the HBO executive team of Jeff Bewkes and Chris Albrecht led the other.
Bewkes, who was recently promoted to a bigger job at HBO parent AOL Time Warner, and Albrecht were credited for establishing critical and popular successes like "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City."
Rounding out the moguls' top five are John Calley & Amy Pascal, heads of the allied Sony and Columbia film studios; CBS president Leslie Moonves; Kaz Hirai, head of Sony's U.S. video game unit; and
Barry Meyer & Alan Horn, heads of the Warner Brothers film studio.
Following Hanks on the star list are filmmaker Steven Spielberg and actors Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts.
Reality TV's Osbournes were ranked No. 37.
Tom Hanks
Cirque du Soleil
'Alegria'
Two of the Montreal based Cirque du Soleil contortionists perform during a dress rehearsal ahead of their season of shows in Mexico City, October 9, 2002. The circus will be performing their 'Alegria' show
for Mexican audiences for almost two months.
Photo by Daniel Aguilar
Patrick J. Leahy Humanitarian Award
Emmylou Harris
Next month, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation will present her with the Patrick J. Leahy Humanitarian Award for her work to bring attention to the situations of land mine survivors worldwide.
A watchdog group, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, reported that more than seven million stockpiled mines were destroyed by states last year, bringing to 34 million the number destroyed since
a 1997 treaty. The number of countries exporting land mines has dropped to 14 from 55.
The number of land mine accidents also has fallen, to around 15,000-20,000 per year, the report said. A total of 125 countries have ratified the land mine treaty, and another 18 have signed it but have
not yet ratified. The United States is not one of those countries.
Emmylou Harris
New Market For Ann Coulter?
Toilet Paper Novels
Germans who like to read on the toilet no longer need to take newspapers in with them, but can instead turn to novels and poems printed onto toilet paper, a German publisher said on Wednesday.
"We want our books to be used. That's our philosophy," said Georges Hemmerstoffer, head of the Klo-Verlag which publishes the toilet paper literature. About half of all people liked to read on the toilet, he said.
Poems by German literary giants Heinrich Heine and Christian Morgenstern, as well as tales and detective stories could be found on the toilet rolls, Hemmerstoffer told Reuters at the Frankfurt book fair.
Each text was printed several times on one roll, so that readers could actually use the paper and still leave behind some entertainment for the next toilet visitor.
Toilet Paper Novels
Olney, IL
Albino Squirrels
Pink-eyed and white as a wedding cake, the albino squirrels of Olney have the right of way on city streets. They're protected by police officers who wear white squirrel patches. And to make
sure the hard-to-miss baby squirrels aren't eaten, cats are forbidden by law to roam beyond their owner's yards.
Pampered with peanuts and handmade tree houses, these renowned squirrels already live several steps above the average rodent--but just wait until Saturday.
To honor the 100-year anniversary of the first recorded white squirrel sighting, when a pair of captured albinos were displayed in a tavern, this southern Illinois city of 8,600 plans
a formal "Blessing of the Squirrels." Residents will compete in a 5K "scamper" down Main Street; a youth group will sing "Willie, Olney's Little White Squirrel," and floats with squirrel themes will roll in a centennial parade.
Experts say Olney is one of only three communities in the country with albino squirrel colonies. It has long treated the bleach-white creatures as sacred cows.
For a lot more, Albino Squirrels
Has Enough Money
Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell says her talk show lost its appeal after she got into an on-air dust-up with Tom Selleck - and says she's "not that nice."
"The first few years I could hardly believe what was happening . . . these big stars like Julie Andrews and Barbra Streisand sitting next to me," O'Donnell tells
Isaac Mizrahi in an upcoming interview on Oxygen's "Isaac Mizrahi Show."
"Everyone thought, 'Oh, you're so nice.' I'm not that nice. I'm a very biting, caustic, sarcastic person."
"The temptation was to stay at the job even when the thrill of doing it was gone," she says. "That was just money, and you know what Isaac, I've got enough money."
O'Donnell's interview airs Monday, Oct. 21 at 10:30 p.m. on Oxygen.
For a lot more, Rosie O'Donnell
In Memory
Teresa Graves
Actress Teresa Graves, who starred as a sassy undercover cop in the 1970s television police drama "Get Christie Love!", died Thursday in a fire at her home. She was 54.
Firefighters found Graves unconscious in a bedroom, said police Sgt. Henry Miller. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died.
The blaze began shortly past midnight at Graves' 1,600-square-foot home in Hyde Park, city fire spokesman Brian Humphrey said. Firefighters found the rear part of the home engulfed in flames.
Graves started her career as a singer with the Doodletown Pipers. She later turned to acting, appearing regularly on
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" in 1969 and 1970.
She had supporting roles in several films during the 1970s, including
"Black Eye,"
"That Man Bolt," and
"Vampira."
On "Get Christie Love!", which ran during the 1974-75 season, she played the first black woman hired by a big-city police department.
Graves left acting in the mid-1970s in favor of religion.
The fire appeared to have started in a 200-square-foot enclosed patio that was added on to the original home, Humphrey said. Smoke alarms inside the home were functional, fire officials said.
Teresa Graves
Wisconsin
Cranberries
Cranberries are corralled after the fields were flooded during the fall harvest at the Gaynor Cranberry Marsh near Wisconsin Rapids Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002. According to the state's Cranberry Growers
Association, Wisconsin growers are projected to produce more than 3 million barrels of cranberries this year, making it Wisconsin's largest fruit crop.
Photo by Andy Manis
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